AFRICA FINTECH SUMMIT ACCRA 2025 WELCOMES BANK OF GHANA (BoG) AS A STRATEGIC PARTNER

Accra, Ghana: 2 October 2025: The Africa Fintech Summit is pleased to announce Bank of Ghana as a Strategic Partner for the 14th  edition of AFTSACCRA25, to be held at Accra International Convention Centre (AICC) on October 08-10, 2025. The partnership comes at a time when the Bank of Ghana launched the first-ever continental fintech license passporting, as well as its eCedi received an Innovation in digital currency design Award, putting BoG at the forefront of regulatory innovation in Africa and beyond! 

Commenting on this year's edition of the Africa Fintech Summit in Ghana, Dr. Johnson Pandit Asiama, Governor of BoG, remarks, “The Bank of Ghana is partnering with the Africa FinTech Summit 2025 as we continue to shape a resilient and future-ready financial ecosystem. Our commitment to innovation goes beyond technology; we are taking a holistic approach that embraces digital public infrastructure, the responsible use of AI, data-driven policymaking, and secure pathways for emerging technologies such as virtual assets. Through initiatives such as licence passporting and regulatory sandboxes, we aim to position Ghana as a launchpad for fintech solutions with global relevance—transforming not only how we regulate, but also how we drive inclusive growth from Africa to the world.” 

“As an initiative dedicated to fostering Africa’s digital leapfrog and financial inclusion, I am thrilled to welcome Bank of Ghana to this year’s Africa Fintech Summit. Financial inclusion could only be secured with regulatory innovation and industry oversight of which Bank of Ghana is an excellent example of as its track record and recent decisions demonstrate.  AFTS had the great honour of hosting closed-door regulatory roundtable, getting the industry and regulators in the same room at our past events leading to great transparent and collaborative engagements in each host country. We are looking forward to repeat the same success story in Ghana this October and cross-pollinate BoG’s innovative leadership including CBDC experimentation, fintech license passporting, regulatory sandbox, virtual assets regulation and fostering fintech-friendly policies with fellow policy makers and industry stakeholders across Africa,” said Zekarias Amsalu, Co-Founder of AFTS and MD of Ibex Frontier.

Since its first summit in 2018, the Africa Fintech Summit has become the largest annual financial technology gathering on the African continent. #AFTSACCRA25 will bring Keynote Speeches, Fintech thought leaders, Roundtables, fireside chats, Masterclasses, a Welcome Reception Dinner, Happy Hours, African Fintech Awards Ceremony, AlphaExpo Micro Accelerator & Pitch Competition for early-stage startups, ecosystem tour, and conference tourism. 

Over the past 13 summits, AFTS has had the honor of hosting closed-door roundtables with regulators and fintech stakeholders, including the Central Bank of Egypt, Reserve Bank of South Africa, and Central Bank of Kenya.  The 14th edition of AFTS in Accra, Ghana, will be the largest yet, with an expected 1,500 in-person and 3,000+ virtual attendees from 65 countries that will showcase BoG’s regulatory innovation with a dedicated regulatory roundtable as well as a fireside chat entitled “Learning from Ghana – Fintech License Passporting”. 

Confirmed Sponsors of the summit so far include Binance, VISA, Chevron, Analytix Engine, ShrinQ Ghana, Africa Finance Corporation, Conduit, MDP, Flutterwave, SecondSTAX, KC Compliance, Mukuru, Paystack, FIDO, Fincra, and counting.

As in the past years, the event will be hybrid, with live streaming provided for remote attendees via our website, and delegates get a 15% discount on AFTS tickets by using the discount code BoG15 at checkout of registration at https://africafintechsummit.com/event/afts-accra-2025/..

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About Africa Fintech Summit 

AFTS ( https://africafintechsummit.com ) is the premier global initiative dedicated to the African fintech ecosystem. AFTS is traditionally hosted in Washington, D.C., each April during the World Bank/IFC annual meeting week and in a different African city every October/November. The summit is being held in a hybrid format, with in-person events at the selected venue and live virtual participation.  So far AFTS has brought its summits to Washington DC (2025), Nairobi, Kenya(2024), Washington DC(2024), Lusaka, Zambia ( 2023), Washington DC & Prosper T4TA Launch(April 2023), Cape Town, South Africa( 2022), Washington DC (2022), Cairo, Egypt (2021), Virtual(2020), Addis Abeba, Ethiopia(2019), Lagos, Nigeria (2018). The 2025 Summit is scheduled for Accra, Ghana on 8-10 October 2025.

2025 Theme - From Africa to The World 

AFTS had a theme of the Africanization of Global Tech in 2023, showcasing how African Fintech startups are expanding globally and resolving global pain points in other markets, followed by a theme of ‘Fintech in Every Industry” in 2024. Recognizing that the globe is now closely intertwined and African fintech startups are expanding in and bringing their ‘battle-tested’ innovation to other continents, the theme for 2025 is From Africa to the World. In this respect, AFTS will highlight African Fintech success stories and innovations within and outside of the continent, including global expansion and what this means for global stakeholders, regulators, policy makers, investors, and the African fintech ecosystem. 

About BoG

Bank of Ghana is Ghana's central banking authority with a core mandate to formulate and implement monetary policy to achieve price stability, contribute to the promotion and maintenance of financial stability, and ensure a sound payment system. As part of its vision to foster innovation, the Bank of Ghana has developed a robust digital financial ecosystem to guarantee the continuous growth of a digital economy in Ghana.